Analytical Writing
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Analytical Writing is the GRE section that evaluates test-takers’ ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and logically through structured essay responses.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Analytical Writing canonical | 1 |
| GRE AWA | 1 |
| GRE Analytical Ability section | 1 |
| GRE Analytical Writing | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T495098 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Analytical Writing Context triple: [GRE, hasSection, Analytical Writing]
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A.
Essays
Essays is a landmark collection of philosophical and moral reflections by Francis Bacon that helped shape the development of the English essay as a literary form.
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B.
tical (historical unit)
The tical was a traditional Thai unit of currency and weight used before the modern baht was introduced.
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C.
Essay on Classification
Essay on Classification is a foundational 19th-century work in natural history by Louis Agassiz that outlines his views on the philosophical and structural basis of biological classification.
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D.
New Formalism
New Formalism is a mid-20th-century architectural style that revived classical principles of symmetry, monumentality, and formal composition within modernist design.
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E.
Syntactic Structures
Syntactic Structures is a landmark 1957 book by linguist Noam Chomsky that revolutionized the study of language by introducing generative grammar and challenging behaviorist views of linguistics.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Analytical Writing Target entity description: Analytical Writing is the GRE section that evaluates test-takers’ ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and logically through structured essay responses.
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A.
Essays
Essays is a landmark collection of philosophical and moral reflections by Francis Bacon that helped shape the development of the English essay as a literary form.
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B.
tical (historical unit)
The tical was a traditional Thai unit of currency and weight used before the modern baht was introduced.
-
C.
Essay on Classification
Essay on Classification is a foundational 19th-century work in natural history by Louis Agassiz that outlines his views on the philosophical and structural basis of biological classification.
-
D.
New Formalism
New Formalism is a mid-20th-century architectural style that revived classical principles of symmetry, monumentality, and formal composition within modernist design.
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E.
Syntactic Structures
Syntactic Structures is a landmark 1957 book by linguist Noam Chomsky that revolutionized the study of language by introducing generative grammar and challenging behaviorist views of linguistics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | GRE test section ⓘ |
| administeredBy | ETS ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Analytical Writing
ⓘ
surface form:
GRE AWA
Analytical Writing ⓘ
surface form:
GRE Analytical Writing
|
| assesses |
clarity of expression
ⓘ
control of standard written English ⓘ logical organization ⓘ use of relevant examples ⓘ |
| consistsOf |
Argument task
ⓘ
Issue task ⓘ |
| doesNotAssess |
factual recall
ⓘ
specific content knowledge ⓘ |
| durationPerTask | 30 minutes ⓘ |
| durationTotal | 60 minutes ⓘ |
| evaluates |
ability to articulate complex ideas
ⓘ
ability to examine claims and evidence ⓘ ability to maintain a focused and coherent discussion ⓘ ability to support ideas with relevant reasons and examples ⓘ analytical writing skills ⓘ critical thinking skills ⓘ |
| format | essay responses ⓘ |
| governedBy | ETS scoring rubrics ⓘ |
| introducedIn | revised GRE General Test format (2011) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | computer-delivered GRE ⓘ |
| partOf |
GRE
ⓘ
surface form:
Graduate Record Examination
|
| positionInTest | typically first section of GRE ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Analytical Writing
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
GRE Analytical Ability section
|
| requiredFor |
GRE
ⓘ
surface form:
GRE General Test
|
| requires |
analysis of complex ideas
ⓘ
coherent organization ⓘ development of a position ⓘ evaluation of arguments ⓘ precise use of language ⓘ |
| responseType | typed on computer ⓘ |
| scoredBy |
automated essay scoring engine
ⓘ
human raters ⓘ |
| scoreIncrement | 0.5 point increments ⓘ |
| scoreRange | 0–6 ⓘ |
| scoreUse |
admissions decisions
ⓘ
placement or remedial writing decisions ⓘ scholarship considerations ⓘ |
| targetPopulation |
prospective MBA students
ⓘ
prospective graduate students ⓘ |
| usedBy |
business schools
ⓘ
graduate schools ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Analytical Writing Description of subject: Analytical Writing is the GRE section that evaluates test-takers’ ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and logically through structured essay responses.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
GRE Analytical Writing
this entity surface form:
GRE AWA
this entity surface form:
GRE Analytical Ability section